Category: Publications
My God is Now Allah and I Gladly Follow His Laws
Cornelia Filter studied German literature and history. She worked for various newspapers and magazines, such as Die Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau, Brigitte, and above all Emma. Today, she is a public relations consultant for SOLWODI, an organization that is active on behalf of foreign-born girls in Germany, who have fallen victim to forced prostitution, arranged marriages and domestic violence.
IfI Press Release on the Christmas Holiday
Bonn (December 21, 2009) In discussions about social integration and interreligious life together, the call for the harmonization of Christian and Islamic faith conceptions is not a rare occurrence. This call fails, in the view of Eberhard Troeger from the Institute of Islamic Studies, above all because of the divergent statements in the Bible and the Koran about Jesus’ identity and message.
(Deutsch) Pressemitteilung zum Opferfest am 27. November 2009
(Deutsch) B O N N (25. November 2009) – Wenn Muslime am Freitag, den 27. November 2009, zum Abschluss der diesjährigen Pilgerfahrt nach Mekka mit der rituellen Schlachtung von Schafen, Ziegen oder Kamelen ihr wichtigstes Fest, das so genannte Opferfest (arabisch Id al-Adha), begehen, erinnern sie sich vor allem an die im Koran als vorbildlich beschriebene Hingabe Abrahams und Ismaels und ihre Bereitschaft zum Gehorsam gegenüber Gott.
Islam and Christianity Nr. 2/2009 (9. Jg.)
Jesus and Muhammad as Founders of Religion
IFI Press Release on the Discussion Concerning Islamophobia
BONN (October 26, 2009) – On the occasion of the trial beginning on Monday, October 26, 2009, in the Marwa el-Sharbini murder case, the scholar of Islam Christine Schirrmacher, from the Institute of Islamic studies, speaks out in favor of the necessary distinction to be made between legitimate criticism of the ideology of political Islam and justified criticism of deficits in integration on the one hand, and a general rejection of all Muslims or even xenophobic offenses against Muslim fellow citizens on the other.
The Koran. Arabic-German. Translation and commentary by Adel Theodor Khoury
The text of this further German-Arabic version of the Koran is based on the 1987 translation of the well-known Professor emeritus of Religious Science at the Roman Catholic theological faculty of the University of Münster (Westphalia), T. A. Khoury, published in association with leading Muslim theologians including the General Secretary of the Muslim World Congress.
IFI Press Release on the Influence of Islamic Internet Sites upon Muslim Youth in Germany
BONN (August 17, 2009) – In regard to the question about the factors for integration and de-integration among Muslim youth in Germany, the varied and constantly growing offerings on Islamic websites should be taken into still more stronger consideration, according to the judgement of the Rev. Canon Albrecht Hauser from the Institute of Islamic Studies of the German Evangelical Alliance.
